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Eastern, at the beginning of a 42-minute launch window. The rocket took off from SpaceX's launch facility 4E at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base as planned, carrying the NSPO's FORMOSAT-5 satellite to orbit, where it was deployed successfully. (more...)

The WSJ reported in July that Samsung was developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby. But, technically, he didn't specify whether Samsung's speaker will feature Bixby. With the announcement, Bixby Voice, which has been due since April, was first released in the USA in July, and now it is being made available in around 200 countries. (more...)

The space station crossed the path of the eclipse three times as it orbited above the continental United States at an altitude of 250 miles. Starting off the coast of OR and leaving U.S. NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson, Jack Fischer and Randy Bresnik, along with cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazansky and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli are now aboard the spacecraft. (more...)

But if you can't stand clutter and are desperate to send your glasses off right away, mail them to: Explore Scientific , 101 S. 48th St., Springdale, AR 72762. There's actually something charitable you can do with the leftovers rather than simply tossing them in the garbage like you may have already done. That's good news for those looking forward to the next eclipse that will occur across North America in 2024. (more...)

This new price drop is clearly created to make the Vive more accessible to a wider market, and brings it closer to the Rift's current £400 price point. To reach the masses, Steiber thinks there are various factors that should be worked upon, one of them being the price. Thankfully, those wishing to pick up a Vive can now do so for far less, as HTC has slashed 200 bucks off the system's cost, bringing the price down to $599. (more...)

On September 1, an asteroid nearly three miles wide will safely fly by Earth. Florence asteroid with a diameter of 4.4 km, will fly at a distance of seven million kilometres from the planet (18 of the distance from the earth to the moon). (more...)

Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are a curious duo for Nintendo's pocket monster franchise. In these new versions of the game, "a story unfolds on a grand scale, with the Legendary Pokemon Solgaleo , Lunala , and Necrozma at its center". (more...)

Both listings encourage buyers to pre-order the console before it's gone forever, indicating that the edition should be limited. All of the streams can be viewed on PC, Xbox One , or on mobile devices via the official Mixer apps. Crackdown 3 will be available for Xbox One and PC. It has been a couple of months since Microsoft first announced the Xbox One X alongside some of the more important details like specs, supported games, a release date and price. (more...)

The volcanoes were hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet and uncovered via publicly available radar mapping data. Previous studies have also hinted at the presence of the volcanoes #Beneath The Ice , but due to the presence of the immensely thick layer of the ice covering the surface, it has been immensely hard to study the geology. (more...)

The article was headlined: " Heather Heyer: woman killed in road rage incident was a fat, childless 32-year-old slut". The Daily Stormer has become notorious as one of the central neo-Nazi websites on the internet. However, some experts have cast doubt over whether the site has been hacked by an established member of Anonymous , with others claiming it was a stunt by the Daily Stormer itself. (more...)

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford at the presidential office on Monday. "Nobody's looking for war", the four-star general added. "What matters is that if a second conflict (on the peninsula) erupts, that can not help but lead to a nuclear war", the North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary. (more...)

In a statement, Mattis said the U.S. and its allies would win any arms race or conflict with North Korea. He added that USA and allied militaries now have "the most precise, rehearsed and robust defensive and offensive capabilities on Earth". (more...)

Dr Walker-Smith told Fairfax he believed the bleeding wouldn't stop because of the anti-coagulant being released by the fleas to stop the blood from clotting, in the same way leeches behave. "He (Kanizay) must have been very, very cold and he wouldn't have felt it", added Weir, who experienced a similar injury on his forehead after a night dive 40 years ago. (more...)

He also wrote women "prefer jobs in social and artistic areas" while more men "may like coding because it requires systemising", in the the memo which gained attention online over the weekend and was shared on the tech blog Gizmodo . Pichai's memo, titled "Our words matter", states that the contents of the email were "fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it", according to Recode . (more...)

In honor of the event, officials over at the Shreve Memorial Library are hosting an All-American Eclipse Viewing party at the Broadmoor Library in Shreveport. A partial lunar eclipse is when the earth moves between the Sun and Moon but they do not make a perfectly straight line. Wichita State University's Greg Novacek offers the following tips on how to watch a solar eclipse safely. (more...)

Researchers also said that the TNT is not limited on skin cells. Well, now you don't have to look any farther than Columbus, Ohio, where researchers from the Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University have developed a device capable of repairing organs with a single touch. (more...)

As noted yesterday by BGR , the partial lunar eclipse will be visible on Monday night in several parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. The August 7 lunar eclipse is associated with the upcoming major August 21 solar eclipse. Eclipse Begins - 10.52 pm; Maximum Phase of the Eclipse - 11.50 pm; Eclipse Ends - 12.50 am.Total Duration of the Eclipse Referring to Umbral and Penumbral Phases - 05h 1m. (more...)

All the polling stations for electing members to the National Constituent Assembly in Venezuela opened at 6:00 a.m. local time (1030 GMT) on Sunday, despite opposition-led protests against the move. "This is for elections, for the freeing of political prisoners, for change", said Opposition Congressman Freddy Guevera. Several foreign airlines, including Air France, Delta, Avianca and Iberia have suspended flights to the country over worries about security. (more...)

The new ISS crew members are safely in the orbit after the launch and will travel for six hours in the spacecraft before docking to the space station's Rassvet module at 6 pm. While they're there, they'll spend many hours in the weightless laboratories, conducting a variety of science experiments related to biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science. (more...)

Apple hasn't issued any statement in this regards. Apple also does contract some Mac Pro production in Texas to Flex. For now, Trump seems to have kept to his pre-poll promises . What's more, since the election, Trump has talked in progressively hopeful terms about the potential for Apple to work in the US. Because why would Cook care if Trump's administration is an economic success or not? It appears that Cook once again feels responsible for using his voice, this time to elevate ... (more...)

The app first launched on Android previous year. The Trusted Contact app from search engine giant can automatically share your status and location with your friends or loved ones. Increases in app revenue indicate that users are increasingly signing up for Netflix on their mobile devices, and particularly through Apple's App Store . (more...)

It's a feature that most users will probably never think about, but it helps Lenovo and the Moto line stand out in a sea of very similar handsets (having tried the modular approach with the LG G5 in 2016, LG has dropped the idea this year). (more...)

Some Pokemon Go fans traveled from other countries to attend the event. Niantic said it will refund the $20 ticket price and players or Pokemon "trainers" would be given $100 in PokeCoins for their Pokémon GO account. However, Niantic is doing everything they can to try and right the wrongs, they released an update on their website letting everyone know what to expect. (more...)

In India, where the second largest mobile operator in the world has faced strong competition, growth was down 13.9pc in comparison to the first three months of its 2016 financial year, however the market there has stabilised compared to the previous three months. (more...)

Shares of Wipro and Reliance Industries remain in the lead gainers on the benchmark Sensex today. Wipro was the top gainer in Nifty. The 30-share index bounced 131.48 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 32,035.88. Other telecom stocks which came under pressure after the announcement are Reliance Communications down 2.45% to Rs 23.85, Tata Communications down 2.31% to Rs 651.9, Tata Teleservices Maharashtra fell 2.4% to Rs 7.33. (more...)

The 31-year-old posted and quickly deleted an Instagram photo showing 10 pill bottles with the caption, " all for the brain " back in June that had everybody anxious about his longterm health. He played for the Tennessee Titans in 2014. He had three years remaining on his contract after signing an extension last season. The Panthers appeared set to move on with Daryl Williams and rookie Taylor Moton at right tackle after a June minicamp. (more...)

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) was mandated to unbundle catering services on trains by creating a distinction primarily between food preparation and food distribution. During the course of inspection, which was done by the a joint team of the CAG team and the Railways at selected 74 stations and 80 trains, it was found that waste bins were not covered, not emptied regularly and not washed. (more...)

The bigger talking points were the launch of JioPhone (with features of a 4G phone) and the aggressive tariff plans. It sports a squarish design, a headphone jack along with microphone and speaker. For Idea, it declined from Rs 129 in the first quarter to Rs 106 in the last quarter of the fiscal year. The company aims to deliver 5 million JioPhones available every week . (more...)

They held 43.3% stake in the production house till June 30, The Times of India reported. Additionally, he also said that market capitalization has multiplied from ten crores to over five lakh crores. "Ramp-up of ethane import project has helped in diversifying feedstock sources and mitigating risks for our existing crackers at Dahej and Hazira". Reliance Industries (RIL) has acquired a 24.92 per cent stake in Ekta Kapoor-owned TV and movie production house Balaji Telefilms for Rs ... (more...)

What's more , there were over 100,000 listings for stolen and fraudulent identification documents and access devices, counterfeit goods, malware and other computer hacking tools , firearms, and fraudulent services, the agency said . USA officials said they are aware of and investigating hundreds of services for secret online transactions of drugs and illicit goods. The Department of Justice announced Thursday the takedown of the largest online drug marketplace and the indictment of the ... (more...)

Speaking to Optometry Today , Dr. Morjaria said the operating surgeons had never seen anything like it in their lives before. United Kingdom opthamologist Rupal Morjaria told Optometry Today that in November, she and an operating team discovered a " bluish mass " of 17 contact lenses stuck together inside the woman's eye. (more...)

The new maps of Pluto and Charon use the highest resolution images captured by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) to present global mosaics of both worlds. "The complexity of the Pluto system - from its geology to its satellite system to its atmosphere- has been beyond our wildest imagination", Alan Stern, an investigator for the New Horizons spacecraft, said in a statement . (more...)

Meanwhile, Wisma Putra in a statement said that the action by the Israeli authorities was a violation of global laws and norms. He added in a statement carried by the official Petra news agency that Israel must "refrain from taking any step aimed at changing the historical" status quo of Al-Quds or the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (more...)

The 40-year-old was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, which had spread to her bone marrow . Mirzakhani is survived by her husband and daughter. Mirzakhani attended an all-girls high school in Tehran and grew up during the Iran-Iraq war. According to the awarding committee , Mirzakhani's genius came from her "rare combination of superb technical ability, bold ambition, far-reaching vision, and deep curiosity". (more...)

However, it was not until June 22 - more than a week later - that Verizon and NICE managed to close the breach. In the RNC leak, UpGuard found an online repository of voter information left unsecured on Amazon Web Services' servers. (more...)

Juno reached perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's centre) on July 10 at 6:55 p.m. PDT (9:55 p.m. EDT). In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking . The Great Red Spot is a storm, but it's unlike anything we can imagine here on Earth. We may finally begin to get some answers about this spot. "Not a lot is known", Scott Bolton, principal investigator with NASA's Juno probe, told CBS News in an interview Monday. (more...)

The hospital says Liu, China's most prominent political prisoner, has respiratory failure and his condition is now life threatening. However, in a subsequent statement that was ignored by Chinese media, the German and American doctors said Liu was capable of traveling overseas, and the German Embassy in Beijing lashed out at China for "selectively leaking" the video to state media in a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality. (more...)

Pointing it at a product's bar code will have the app describing what it is, and even provide additional information about how to use it. Otherwise, all you have to do to start identifying things is select from one of five different categories (the app calls them "channels") to help the app understand what type of object it needs to identify. (more...)